Boodarai's photos with the keyword: guineas

all perched on top of the old pergola... except for the fourth guinea, the little lavender runt, who is always nearby but even more confused than the average guinea

our 5 guinea fowl have gone back to living with mum (one of our chooks, that hatched them) but occasionally they do proper guinea fowl stuff like sit in trees. Hard to snap, high up and against the sun.

our 5 guinea fowl have gone back to living with mum (one of our chooks, that hatched them) but occasionally they do proper guinea fowl stuff like sit in trees. Hard to snap, high up and against the sun.

our 5 guinea fowl have gone back to living with mum (one of our chooks, that hatched them) but occasionally they do proper guinea fowl stuff like sit in trees. Hard to snap, high up and against the sun.

our 5 guinea fowl have gone back to living with mum (one of our chooks, that hatched them) but occasionally they do proper guinea fowl stuff like sit in trees. Hard to snap, high up and against the sun.

Four days on, and one (liberated) guinea keet has disappeared. The remaining guinea is all the more determined to stay close to the five captive guineas, and is almost always to be found sitting on the pergola next to the roost. So far so good.

Four days on, and one (liberated) guinea keet has disappeared. The remaining guinea is all the more determined to stay close to the five captive guineas, and is almost always to be found sitting on the pergola next to the roost. So far so good.

To train the guinea fowl to live up off the ground and away from the chicken coop, we have caged 5 of the guineas in this short term coop on top of the kiwi fruit pergola (with an indoor area and an outdoor area, with good wind shelter). The other 2 escaped during the transfer. Not such a big disaster, as we would have been releasing 2 of them next week anyway. Theory is that they will stay close by, due to the strong guinea flocking instinct. Then you release one more each week. By the time they are all released, they will have decided that this is the place to hang out. We have food and water both inside and outside the coop. The entire coop was built by our marvellous WWOOFer Richard!

To train the guinea fowl to live up off the ground and away from the chicken coop, we have caged 5 of the guineas in this short term coop on top of the kiwi fruit pergola (with an indoor area and an outdoor area, with good wind shelter). The other 2 escaped during the transfer. Not such a big disaster, as we would have been releasing 2 of them next week anyway. Theory is that they will stay close by, due to the strong guinea flocking instinct. Then you release one more each week. By the time they are all released, they will have decided that this is the place to hang out. We have food and water both inside and outside the coop. The entire coop was built by our marvellous WWOOFer Richard!

To train the guinea fowl to live up off the ground and away from the chicken coop, we have caged 5 of the guineas in this short term coop on top of the kiwi fruit pergola (with an indoor area and an outdoor area, with good wind shelter). The other 2 escaped during the transfer. Not such a big disaster, as we would have been releasing 2 of them next week anyway. Theory is that they will stay close by, due to the strong guinea flocking instinct. Then you release one more each week. By the time they are all released, they will have decided that this is the place to hang out. We have food and water both inside and outside the coop. The entire coop was built by our marvellous WWOOFer Richard!